Driver for Epson TM-T88iii Serial, or Raw for Serial

[Steve Roscio]

Howdy -

Anyone have CUPS drivers (PPDs/filters) for the Epson TM-T88iii (not iv) thermal receipt printer? I've dug around to no avail, even at linuxprinting.org. I've contacted Epson and they gave me an early release for the TM-T88iv, but it uses a new command set not supported by the iii. Result is garbage printed. I asked for something for the ii, or the source so I could downgrade it, but no go on either.

Alternately: I can have my app create the raw ESC/POS stream. (If I copy this stream to the tty, it works). How then would I use CUPS just for the queuing/spooling? What device would I open in my app to print to this queue? Sorry, I'm a novice at CUPS/lpr stuff.

Thanx in advance,
- Steve

[Steve Roscio]

Idea #3: If someone could get me started with a simple raster converter (source code), I'd be willing to write the back-half that takes the raster image in memory and emits the proper ESC/POS commands for the printer. I found this: http://www.cups.org/documentation.ph...ec-raster.html and it doesn't look too hard to work with.

- Steve

[Steve Roscio]

Duh - Raw printing (idea #2) - that was really easy: lp command. Got that working.
But I'd still like a real CUPS driver for the printer, or if someone could point me to source code for a generic raster converter. Thanx.

[moboticdes]

Duh - Raw printing (idea #2) - that was really easy: lp command. Got that working.
But I'd still like a real CUPS driver for the printer, or if someone could point me to source code for a generic raster converter. Thanx.

could you please post the code to print a sample line with lpr command? thank you!

[aquarat]

Any progress on this ?

[aquarat]

Hi

I've managed to get a TM-T88II working with Citizen's CBM-1000 ESC/POS driver. It looks like it rasterizes everything and then sends that to the printer.

I've attached the source code, the PPD and the result of compilation on my machine using the following command :

gcc -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -Wall -fPIC -O2 -o rastertocbm1k rastertocbm1k.c -lcupsimage -lcups

[martowan]

Hi AQUARAT,
I have installed my printer using the drivers you have provided above. After i finish installing, an error occurred that i should not use the printer before i install "/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertocbmlk" . is this not exporting the path?If yes how can i do it on Kubuntu 12.04 32bit.

kind regards.